Sword God in a World of Magic

Alex walked towards the area where the giant octopus had landed.

He didn't want to miss out on any potential rewards the hedgehog had for him.

While Alex was walking to that place, he looked at his left arm.

His left arm was no longer frozen, and it actually felt a bit hot. Sadly, his left arm was still severely injured. The freezing of organic material completely destroyed its structure, severing veins, and many other things.

Alex's left arm hadn't been in pain while it had been frozen, but as soon as it had thawed, Alex felt searing pain coming from it.

Alex couldn't really move it much, but he could still experiment with it.

The ethereal spire had entered Alex's left arm, and it remained there. He had already accidentally shot some cold air out of his left arm earlier, and Alex wanted to know how that worked.

Alex was already familiar with how it felt to move Mana, and he willed for the cold Mana in his left arm to explode.

SSSHH!

A blast of cold air left Alex's left arm. Since his left arm was still limply hanging around, the cold hit part of Alex's left leg and the ground.

The ice below Alex's left arm grew by a bit, and the coat on Alex's left leg completely froze.

However, Alex was too busy with something else.

As soon as Alex had willed the Ice Mana to explode, his arm started to burn. Well, it wasn't burning literally, but it felt like it was burning.

Alex quickly ran to one of the spots with destroyed ice. The octopus had destroyed a huge part of the lake when it had surfaced.

SSSSSS!

Alex put his arm directly into the icy water and gritted his teeth. The sound of something hot touching cold water could be heard as soon as Alex's arm hit the water.

'Fuck! That's so hot!' Alex thought. 'Are you serious?! You have Mana, and you follow the Laws of Thermodynamics?! You want to make stuff cold, so you have to make other stuff hot?! Why can't you just do something magical?!'

After a while, Alex pulled his arm out and moved it through the air for a bit.

His arm had received several burns.

However, it was coated with a thin coating of ice now.

His arm definitely felt colder than before.

'My arm is colder than before. So, let's try again!'

SSSHH!

Another blast of cold air, and Alex immediately dipped his arm into the cold water again.

'It's not as hot as previously, but it still feels like I touched a hot plate or something,' Alex concluded.

After a while, Alex pulled his arm out again.

'I wonder, can I use less?'

tried to suppress the Mana but also

SSSH!

left Alex's left arm again, and Alex's arm heated

Alex's arm

just uncomfortably hot, the temperature that would make someone

cold air that left Alex's left arm wasn't as cold as in

'So, my arm heats up proportionally to how cold the air is. I'm not sure, but I think the amount

I need to test

his left arm with his right arm and

a tiny, little bit,'

SSSSSHH!

blown back by the storm coming out of the arm. However, since he had only used

some icicles had formed on Alex's

off his face and looked

thought, scratching his chin. 'I only used a tiny fraction, and my arm probably only heated up by a single degree. Yet, the air on my face was slightly colder than the

temperature as

my arm were 20°C hot, and if I unleashed a blast equaling 20°C, the blast of air would be -60°C, and my arm

his chin as a complicated expression appeared on

50°C and I did the

effect would be different,' Alex thought as he looked around. 'Sure, the creatures living in such a cold environment have a great cold resistance, but that's only true to a

a beast living in a -40°C cold tundra would have some issues with a blast of

cold weather. I could run around with a 5°C cold arm without issues. It would simply feel very dull, numbs, and awkward. However, I could unleash a blast

some injuries, I can even blast them with like 60°C or something. Sure, my arm would get severe burns and would become useless until I healed it, but my enemy would be

Alex scratched his chin.

ability in a fight. My sword is one-handed anyway,

time, and he finally came

and saw an area of absolute

and many gigantic needles poked

hedgehog was calmly munching on the octopus, seemingly without

tentacles and saw

octopus, and just its width was at least

like Alex stood before the

fifty meters

tentacle and walked along with

the hedgehog was currently munching

but after some seconds,

to Alex and sniffed several

became a bit

smelled the ethereal spire in his body? After all, it was currently munching on the creator and actual owner of the ethereal

smelled similar

He hoped not!

hedgehog pulled its head back and looked

it looked at the octopus below

back at Alex

the hedgehog walked to the tentacle

CRUNCH! CRUNCH! CRUNCH!

of biting, the hedgehog

BANG!

a couple of meters into the distance with a kick